Designing Innovations

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The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining both the best and the worst of modern social life. On the one hand, the suburbs are portrayed as a middle-class domestic utopia and on the other as a dystopic world of homogeneity and conformity. Both of these stereotypes belie a more realistic understanding of contemporary suburbia Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, an exhibit at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Suburbs are heavy on the mind of late, as I’m about to move to one. See also, Disneyland + Suburbia.